WEST WINDSOR, N.J. - Racing concluded on Saturday at the 2010 USRowing National Selection Regatta #2 with finals in the men's double sculls, women's double sculls, men's pair, women's pair, lightweight men's double sculls and lightweight women's double sculls at the Finn M.W. Caspersen Rowing Center on Mercer Lake in West Windsor, N.J.
For all four double sculls and the open weight pairs, the regatta serves as the first step towards making the 2010 Senior National Team that will represent the United States at the 2010 World Rowing Championships in Lake Karapiro, New Zealand. The winner of each event earned the right to compete at a world cup race of their choosing. If the crew finishes in the top four (or top half if there are fewer than eight entries) at the world cup, then it will be nominated to the team.
USRowing Training Center - Princeton's Warren Anderson (Paso Robles, Calif.) and Glenn Ochal (Philadelphia, Pa.) won the men's double sculls by 4.1 seconds. Anderson and Ochal led the race from wire-to-wire, crossing the 1,000-meter mark with a 2.5-second lead over USRowing Training Center - Chula Vista's Scott Gault (Piedmont, Calif.) and Will Miller (Duxbury, Mass.) before taking it to the line in a 6:18.504. Gault and Miller clocked a 6:22.569, followed by Penn A.C./GMS's Stephen Whelpley (Moquon, Wis.) and Joe Spencer in third. Whelpley and Spencer edged ahead of the NYAC/GMS duo of Jamie Koven (Green Village, N.J.) and Michael Sivigny (Hudson, N.H.) at the line to finish third with a time of 6:28.682.
In the women's double sculls, the USRowing Training Center - Princeton duo of Kate Bertko (Oakland, Calif.) and Stesha Carle (Long Beach, Calif.) dominated the competition. Bertko and Carle, both members of the 2009 World Championship silver-medalist women's quadruple sculls crew, crossed the halfway point with just a 0.7-second advantage over teammates Megan Walsh (Charlotte, N.C.) and Sarah Trowbridge (Guilford, Conn.), and were able to pull away over the last half of the course to win by 1.7 seconds. Bertko and Carle posted a winning time of 6:57.924, with Walsh and Trowbridge in a 6:59.650. USTC - Princeton's Megan Kalmoe (St. Croix Falls, Wis.) and Jessi Reel (Atlanta, Ga.) took third in a 7:07.503.
USRowing Training Center - Princeton's Charlie Cole (New Canaan, Conn.) and Jake Cornelius (Brooktondale, N.Y.) won the men's pair by 2.5 seconds. The duo won each of its preliminary races en route to the final. Cole and Cornelius gained a 3.3-second lead over USTC - Chula Vista's Dan Walsh (Norwalk, Conn.) and Henrik Rummel (Pittsford, N.Y.) at the 1,000-meter mark before crossing the line in a 6:27.942. Walsh and Rummel finished second in a 6:30.433, followed by USTC - Princeton's Brett Newlin (Riverton, Wyo.) and David Banks (Potomac, Md.) in a 6:33.919.
In the women's pair, USRowing Training Center - Princeton's Erin Cafaro (Modesto, Calif.) and Susan Francia (Abington, Pa.) led from the start to win in a 7:11.687. The Beijing gold medalist pair cruised to the finish line 4.6 seconds ahead of teammates Jamie Redman (Spokane, Wash.) and Amanda Polk (Pittsburgh, Pa.). Redman and Polk recorded a time of 7:15.742, with USTC - P's Kady Glessner (Seattle, Wash.) and Meghan Musnicki (Ithaca, N.Y.) rounding out the top three in a 7:16.929.
The lightweight men's single sculls USTC - P/GMS duo of Brian de Regt (Rowayton, Conn.) and Jon Winter (New Haven, Conn.) took an early lead in the final race and held on for the win. Crossing the halfway point more than three seconds ahead of the competition, de Regt and Winter came home in a 6:23.571. Jon D'Alba (Berwyn, Pa.) and Cody Lowry (Bristow, Okla.) of the Bachelor's Barge Club finished second in a 6:26.446, followed by third-place USRowing Training Center - Princeton/Undine Barge Club's Andrew Quinn (Honeoye Falls, N.Y.) and Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg (Philadelphia, Pa.) in a 6:29.696.
USRowing Training Center - Princeton's Abby Broughton (Tetonia, Idaho) and Ursula Grobler (Pretoria, South Africa) posted the fastest time in the final of the lightweight women's single sculls. Broughton, a silver-medalist in last year's world championship lightweight women's quadruple sculls, and Grobler, who won the lightweight single sculls at NSR #1, clocked a 6:55.344 for the win. The USTC - P/Pocock duo of Katherine Robinson (Everett, Wash.) and Lindsey Hochman (Seattle, Wash.) finished second in a 7:02.332, with USTC - P's Kristin Hedstrom (Concord, Mass.) and Michelle Trannel (East Dubuque, Ill.) third in a 7:05.929.
For complete results, visit www.powerhousetiming.com. Did you miss the live stream race footage on the Team USA Rowing Channel? Race videos of Saturday's A and B finals are available to download at http://www.usrowing.org/News_Media/DownloadVideo/index.aspx.